First, Do No Harm

From This Is True:

EASILY RECOGNIZABLE: Police say Mark Weinberger, a plastic surgeon from Merrillville, Ind., talked patients into expensive surgical procedures, and either did a bad job or just took the money and did nothing. The 46-year-old doctor then ran, even taking survival gear so he could hide in the wild, leaving behind hundreds of patients and insurance companies claiming fraud or malpractice, more than $5 million in debts, and his wife. Now, five years later, police in Italy found him hiding in a tent at 6,000′ on Mont Blanc. After his arrest, Weinberger took out a hidden box cutter and slit his own throat, but missed all critical structures and survived. He is awaiting extradition to the U.S. (Northwest Indiana Times, AP) …A surgeon and he missed his own carotid and jugular? Yeah, I’m pretty sure he’s guilty in every case of malpractice.

Maybe it was better that he didn’t try to operate on his patients. In fact, you could say that to attempt the procedures when so unskilled would be malpractice, so by not doing the procedures, he was (what’s the opposite of malpractice?). Bam! Another client saved!